stephen barrass, diane whitmerBaroque EEG for Cello, Violin, 2 Hearts and 2 Minds
Baroque Duet for Cello, Violin, two Hearts (ECG) and two Minds (EEG)
Stephen Barrass and Diane Whitmer
The Cellist's and Violinist's brain signals and pulses figure against the Baroque Basso Continuo that they are playing. The musicians wear the state of the art Enobio system which wirelessly transmits EEG, ECG and EOG from brain activity, pulse, and eye movements to a laptop computer. These signals are mapped into sound in real-time with specially designed sonification algorithms. The concert piece is composed by a live mixing of the music of the strings with the sonification of the spontaneous signals of musicians' brains and bodies.
About the Authors and Musicians
Stephen Barrass is a sonification researcher, sound artist and academic in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra in Australia. He holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales (1986) and a Ph.D. titled Auditory Information Design from the Australian National University (1997). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Kommunication in Bonn (1998) and Guest Researcher in Sound Design and Perception at IRCAM in Paris (2009). He organised the International Conference on Auditory Display and the Listening to the Mind Listening concert at the Sydney Opera House in 2004. He is currently a participant in the European COST initiative on Sonic Interaction Design.
Diane Whitmer is a Neuroscientist at Starlab in Barcelona and an amateur musician with training in classical violin and piano. She earned a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Dartmouth College in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Computational Neurobiology from UC San Diego in 2008. In between, she worked in software user-centered design in the San Francisco Bay Area. For her PhD dissertation, she investigated oscillations in the rat vibrissa system and also sensorimotor processing in neurology patients using advanced signal processing techniques. At Starlab, she now develops tools for non-invasive brain stimulation and brain-computer interfaces.
Sasha Agranov was born in Saint Petersburg in 1977 and moved to Israel in 1979. He studied violoncello with Hilel Zori at the Music Academy of Tel Aviv. In 1999 he began his studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studying baroque violoncello with Jaap Ter Linden. He graduated in 2005. He has played in the Early Music Festival of Brezice and the Music Festival of San Sebastian. He is currently a member of the circus Company Circus Delirium the pop groupe amanda jayne , Freak Folk Groupe picola Orchestra Gagarin , Baroque Ensemble Rubato Appassionato and Selva de Mar, a music ensemble that performs "aquatic" music, "a tapestry of timeless, almost utopian atmospheres that bewitch the imagination, constructed over an acoustic base (cello and hang), superimposed with a variety of different objects and ethereal use of electronic processes."
The authors would like to thank both Simon Smith of BCN Sound (http://www.bcnsound.com/) and Iván Cester from Starlab for collaborating on the demo DVD for this piece.
LOGISTICS:
The performance is free and open to the public.
http://smc2010.smcnetwork.org/concerts.htm#concert3
Thursday July 22nd.
Concert 19:30-21:00
Location:
Sala Polivalent at the UPF Communications Campus.
POMPEU FABRA UNIVERSITY
Communication campus - Poblenou
Roc Boronat, 138
08018 Barcelona
Spain
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Artist/Composer: stephen barrass, diane whitmer
Keywords: EEG; sonification; LML; performance; realtime
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